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Big Ben

Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower which stands at the north end of the in London, England.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: tower of the Palace of Westminster, London containing the bell Big Ben
  • Also known as: “Big Ben Tower”, “Clock Tower”, “Elizabeth Tower”, “Saint Stephen Tower”, “St Stephen’s Tower”, “The St. Stephen’s Tower”, and “Tower of Big Ben”
  • Address: London, SW1A 2JR
  • Roof shape: pyramidal
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Westminster Abbey.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Church
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, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the , London, England. is situated 800 feet southwest of Big Ben.

Ferris wheel
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The , originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the of the in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. is situated 1,500 feet northeast of Big Ben.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westminster and Whitehall.

Quarter
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is the main settlement of the in , England. It extends from the to and has many famous landmarks, including the , , , , and much of the cultural centre including the entertainment precinct of West End theatre.

Locality
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is a road and area in the , Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from to .

Suburb
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is a district in , and part of the and South Bank ward of the . It is situated 1 mile east of .

Big Ben

Latitude
51.5007° or 51° 30′ 3″ north
Longitude
-0.12457° or 0° 7′ 29″ west
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Height
315 feet (96 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGV2G+75
Open­Street­Map ID
way 123557148
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­pyramidal
Geo­Names ID
6618994
Wiki­data ID
Q41225
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Big Ben” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Big Ben”
  • Albanian: “Big Ben”
  • Arabic: “بج بن”
  • Arabic: “بغ بن”
  • Arabic: “بيج بن”
  • Arabic: “بيج بين”
  • Arabic: “بيغ بن”
  • Arabic: “بيغ بين”
  • Arabic: “ساعة بيج بن”
  • Arabic: “ساعة بيغ بن”
  • Arabic: “ساعة بيغ بين”
  • Arabic: “ساعه بج بن”
  • Armenian: “Բիգ Բեն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biq Ben”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yelizaveta qülləsi”
  • Basque: “Big Ben”
  • Belarusian: “Біг Бен”
  • Belarusian: “Біг-Бен”
  • Belarusian: “Біг-Бэн”
  • Bengali: “বিগ বেন”
  • Bengali: “বিগ ব্যান”
  • Betawi: “Jem Inggris”
  • Bosnian: “Big Ben”
  • Bulgarian: “Биг Бен”
  • Burmese: “ဘစ်ဘင်နာရီစင်”
  • Catalan: “Big Ben”
  • Catalan: “Torre del Rellotge del Palau de Westminster”
  • Cebuano: “Big Ben (bantayog)”
  • Cebuano: “Big Ben”
  • Central Bikol: “Big Ben”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیگ بن”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیگ بێن”
  • Chechen: “Биг Бен”
  • Chinese: “伊丽莎白塔”
  • Chinese: “伊麗莎白塔(大笨鐘）”
  • Chinese: “大本钟”
  • Chinese: “大班鐘”
  • Chinese: “大笨钟”
  • Chinese: “大笨鐘”
  • Croatian: “Big Ben”
  • Czech: “Big Ben”
  • Danish: “Big Ben”
  • Dutch: “Big Ben”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيج بين”
  • Esperanto: “Big Ben”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Benĉjo”
  • Estonian: “Big Ben”
  • Estonian: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Finnish: “Big Ben”
  • French: “Big Ben”
  • French: “Tour de l’horloge”
  • French: “Tour Élisabeth”
  • Galician: “Big Ben”
  • Georgian: “ბიგ-ბენი”
  • German: “A torre de st. Stephen”
  • German: “Big Ben”
  • Greek: “Big Ben”
  • Greek: “Μπιγκ Μπεν”
  • Hebrew: “ביג בן”
  • Hebrew: “ביג-בן”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל אליזבת‘”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל אליזבת”
  • Hindi: “बिग बेन”
  • Hungarian: “Big Ben”
  • Icelandic: “Big Ben”
  • Icelandic: “klukkuturn Westminsterhallar”
  • Icelandic: “Klukkuturn Westminsterhallar”
  • Indonesian: “Big Ben”
  • Irish: “Big Ben”
  • Italian: “Big Ben”
  • Italian: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Japanese: “エリザベス・タワー”
  • Japanese: “エリザベスタワー”
  • Japanese: “エリザベス塔”
  • Japanese: “ビッグ・ベン”
  • Japanese: “ビッグベン”
  • Javanese: “Big Ben”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಗ್ ಬೆನ್ ಗಡಿಯಾರಗೋಪುರ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಗ್ ಬೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Big Ben”
  • Kazakh: “Big Ben”
  • Kazakh: “Биг Бен”
  • Kirghiz: “Биг Бен”
  • Korean: “빅 벤”
  • Korean: “빅벤”
  • Latin: “Beniaminus Magnus”
  • Latin: “Big Ben”
  • Latin: “Magnum Cloccarium Beni”
  • Latin: “Magnus Beniaminus”
  • Latvian: “Big Ben”
  • Latvian: “Big Bens”
  • Latvian: “Big-Ben”
  • Latvian: “Bigbens”
  • Latvian: “Vestminsteras pils pulkstenis”
  • Latvian: “Vestminsteras pils pulksteņtornis”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Big Ben”
  • Lithuanian: “Big Benas”
  • Lithuanian: “Londono bokštas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestminsterio laikrodžio bokštas”
  • Macedonian: “Биг Бен”
  • Malay: “Big Ben”
  • Malayalam: “Big Ben”
  • Malayalam: “എലിസബത്ത് ടവർ”
  • Malayalam: “ബിഗ് ബെൻ”
  • Marathi: “बिग बेन”
  • Minangkabau: “Big Ben”
  • Mongolian: “Биг Бэн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيڭ بين”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Ben”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great bell”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Big Ben”
  • Norwegian: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Big Ben”
  • Ossetian: “Биг-Бен”
  • Persian: “بیگ بن”
  • Persian: “ساعت بیگ بن”
  • Polish: “Big Ben”
  • Portuguese: “Big Ben”
  • Romanian: “Big Ben”
  • Russian: “Big Ben”
  • Russian: “Big-ben”
  • Russian: “Bigben”
  • Russian: “Башня Елизаветы”
  • Russian: “Биг Бен”
  • Russian: “Биг Бэн”
  • Russian: “Биг-Бен”
  • Russian: “Бигбен”
  • Scots: “Big Ben”
  • Serbian: “Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster”
  • Serbian: “Clock Tower”
  • Serbian: “Биг Бен”
  • Serbian: “Елизабетин торањ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Big Ben”
  • Slovak: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Slovak: “Hodinová veža”
  • Slovenian: “Big Ben”
  • Slovenian: “Elizabetin stolp”
  • Somali: “Big Ben”
  • Spanish: “Big Ben”
  • Swedish: “Big Ben”
  • Swedish: “Great bell of Westminster”
  • Tamil: “பிக் பென்”
  • Tatar: “Биг-Бен”
  • Telugu: “బిగ్ బెన్”
  • Thai: “Big Ben”
  • Thai: “บิกเบน”
  • Thai: “หอนาฬิกาบิกเบน”
  • Thai: “หอนาฬิกาบิ๊กเบน”
  • Thai: “หอนาฬิกาพระราชวังเวสต์มินสเตอร์”
  • Thai: “หอแห่งบิกเบน”
  • Tibetan: “པིན་ཆེན་ཆུ་ཚོད།”
  • Turkish: “Big ben saat kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Big Ben”
  • Ukrainian: “Біг Бен”
  • Ukrainian: “Біг-Бен”
  • Ukrainian: “Біґ-Бен”
  • Urdu: “بگ بین گھنٹا”
  • Urdu: “بگ بین”
  • Uzbek: “Big Ben”
  • Venetian: “Big Ben”
  • Vietnamese: “Big Ben”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Big Ben”
  • Welsh: “Big Ben”
  • Welsh: “Tŵr Elisabeth”
  • Western Armenian: “Պիկ Պեն ժամացոյցը”
  • Western Armenian: “Պիկ Պեն”
  • Western Panjabi: “بگ بن”
  • Wu Chinese: “大本钟”
  • Yue Chinese: “大笨鐘”

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